He enlisted as Private in the Rockbridge Artillery, at Winchester, Virginia, 14 July 1861, and was with that company at the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861. He transferred to the Morris Artillery Company, 15 October 1861, promoted to 2d Gun Sergeant. In the reorganization of April 1862, Page was elected Captain of the battery. He continued in command of his battery on the Maryland Campaign. He was wounded while commanding the battery at Gettysburg in July 1863, but returned to duty in October. He was promoted to Major of Artillery on 27 February 1864 and served in southwest Virginia under Brigadier General John Echols. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1868 as an M.D. and practiced in New York City. He later authored a textbook called Handbook of physical diagnosis: of diseases of the organs of respiration and heart, and of aortic aneurism and also wrote the definitive genealogy of the Page family of Virginia, and a history of the Battery in Sketch of Page's Battery, or Morris Artillery, 2d Corps, Army Northern Virginia, by one of the company, in 1885.
He enlisted as Private in the Rockbridge Artillery, at Winchester, Virginia, 14 July 1861, and was with that company at the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861. He transferred to the Morris Artillery Company, 15 October 1861, promoted to 2d Gun Sergeant. In the reorganization of April 1862, Page was elected Captain of the battery. He continued in command of his battery on the Maryland Campaign. He was wounded while commanding the battery at Gettysburg in July 1863, but returned to duty in October. He was promoted to Major of Artillery on 27 February 1864 and served in southwest Virginia under Brigadier General John Echols. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1868 as an M.D. and practiced in New York City. He later authored a textbook called Handbook of physical diagnosis: of diseases of the organs of respiration and heart, and of aortic aneurism and also wrote the definitive genealogy of the Page family of Virginia, and a history of the Battery in Sketch of Page's Battery, or Morris Artillery, 2d Corps, Army Northern Virginia, by one of the company, in 1885.
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Maria M Page
1816–1837
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Ella Page
1818–1882
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Francis Walker Page
1820–1846
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Carter Henry Page
1822–1909
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John Cary Page
1824–1826
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Frederick Winslow Page
1826–1913
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Jane Walker Page
1828–1845
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Mann Page Jr
1831–1864
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Charlotte Nelson Page
1832–1849
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William Wilmer Page
1833–1857
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Thomas Walker Page
1837–1887
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Richard Channing Moore Page
1841–1898
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